This is a very interesting, inspiring and ultimately hopeful story of loss and redemption. This is a biography of a young medical student from Africa who is caught up in the violence that engulfs his home country of Burundi (and Rawanda) in 1993. He manages to escape to New York but has no other help or support once he arrives in the US. The story describes both his quest to resume his medical education in the US and his narrow escape from Burundi, which is told in a series of flashbacks. He ultimately returns to Burundi to build a health clinic. I found this story to be both overwhelming in its horrific description of man's inhumanity to man, but also joyful and radiant as it describes the courage of this young man who overcomes all odds to rebuild his native homeland.

This is an inspiring story about a young man who survived the 1994 genocide in Burundi, and went on to become a success.